Try to rent chairs and tables from the caterer, as this usually costs less than hiring a party equipment company.

I rented tables and chairs.

A party's final cost depends on many elements, but hiring a caterer and entertainer and renting tables, chairs and linens easily adds up to $10,000, Ms. Romano said.

I love it, but I got to the point where I had to rent tables, move the furniture out of the living room.

He then rented tables to dealers of antiques and collectibles ("whatever that means," he says with a shrug).

So each year they rent tables and chairs for Thanksgiving dinners and give parties in the empty room.

Including tickets that go to the corporations renting tents and tables, there are 42,500 tickets for the event.

Cover rented folding tables with cloth and garlands of flowers.

"Lady, I don't rent tables by the hour," growled the proprietor of the Sunshine Cafe, who was living proof that the 'generators of cheerful advertising' were under no obligation to follow it.

Many restaurants and hotels decline to say who is renting their ballrooms and tables.